Re: rendering pdf with examples/fo/advanced/cid-fonts.fo gives SEVERE: Could not create block pointers. FOText w/o Block ancestor

[Andreas L Delmelle]

On Jan 19, 2007, at 13:11, Adrian Cumiskey wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for the investigation (and the patch).


snip /
But this doesn't fix the SERERE error messages ... I am still  
learning FO and don't understand all the layout stuff yet so I'm a  
little hesitant to go in and try and fix this myself.  The error  
output FOText w/o Block ancestor resides in this method in  
org.apache.fop.fo.FObjMixed.

snip /
Wrapper is a neutral object container and should be allowed where  
#PCDATA, %block;, or %inline are (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/ 
#d0e6532).


Hmm, nasty case. Strictly speaking, the fo:wrapper contains a few  
text-nodes (albeit whitespace only). Those text-nodes would be  
illegal according to the Rec:
An fo:wrapper is only permitted to have children that would be  
permitted to be children of the parent of the fo:wrapper...
The fo:flow is the parent, so the fo:wrapper may only contain (% 
block;)+.


The white-space nodes in the fo:flow are simply ignored. Flow does  
not subclass FObjMixed, and thus does not implement a  characters()  
event...


I'll dig into this in the weekend.

Cheers,

Andreas

Re: rendering pdf with examples/fo/advanced/cid-fonts.fo gives SEVERE: Could not create block pointers. FOText w/o Block ancestor

[Andreas L Delmelle]

Hi,

Please check thoroughly if you have stray FOText in your document,  
for example text as direct child of the flow...


Your assumption is almost correct, although it doesn't necessarily  
mean 'text without block parent', but more general:
If no fo:block is found on the ancestor:: axis, then this message  
appears.



Cheers,

Andreas